Week 14 : Growth Mindset

Growth Mindset 

With finals around the corner I must remind myself to just keep pushing. I think this meme was exactly what I was thinking. 

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Week 14: Storytelling

The Second Circle 

My name is Dante. It is now the third day of my journey with my guide. Every minute and second that passes I am afraid of what we will encounter. There are spirits that do not understand how or why I am allowed into the Inferno and they question my guide all the time. However, it is a higher power that has allowed my entry. There is so much to learn here and the more than I learn, the more I pray for my own soul. Today we left the first circle and ascended into the second circle. I asked my guide why the souls in this circle where there. His answer was very simple the sinners that took part of this circle where their because of their flesh, their carnal sins. Their sins varied from vanity and luxury to lust and adultery. 

I had no idea that I would see many people that I had heard about in my childhood in this place. Can you believe that Cleopatra was in the second circle?! I was so shocked too. After my guide had named the ancient knights and women I felt sad and I felt bad for them. I thought they were good people and I couldn't imagine the hell (literally), that they were going through. My guide could tell that I was upset so he grabbed my arm and navigated me through the second circle so that I could gather myself up.

As we were walking I noticed some souls that were near to me. I am they were very very close and I did not understand why they were so close to us. I asked my guide and told me that they were close because they had souls that went together. Love was the reason that they were there. It was in the midst of these souls that I met Paolo and Francesca but I spoke to Francesca the most. She told me how her destiny was changed when it all started with a kiss. Can you imagine that? Her husband killed her after he found out about her affair with Paolo. I can imagine she regrets it as it was only a moment of weakness but since their souls are together I can only assume she really did love him.

All I know after visiting this second circle is that I will now watch my back and make sure that love and any other carnal feeling will not lead me to this circle. I am frightened and I never want to send my eternal days there.

The second circle 

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Author's Note : 

I used the story Dante's Inferno : Paolo and Francesa to inspire my story this week. I really enjoyed this section of the reading that I did not really change any of the plot. The only thing that I did to make this story my own is that I made the story as if it were Dante telling the story in his own words or in a diary. I felt like this way it would be easier for the reader to know what was going on and more about Dante's feelings as he was navigating the second circle. 

Reading Diary A: Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno 

Limbo: 

• the demons of the inferno would change colors when they were tired and weary
• they would also speak blasphemies against God and all those that followed God 
• they all were tired but they went to the shore where all those that do not follow God meet 
• the reason that they meet at this shore is so that good spirits cannot pass
• When Dante went into the heathens he said that is was very dark and very deep and clouded 
• in the first circle of the abyss there was no sound other than the tremble of the earth that was made by the sorrows of the men and the women 
• these people where there not because they had sinned but because they were living beings and their life had value 
• they were in the heathens because they did not value that worth of life since they were not baptized and that alone was enough for them to be damned 
• by doing so they did not follow God and Christianity correctly 
• when Dante was told this he was sad because he was certain that he knew good people that were not baptized that were probably in this situation
• in the end Dante finds out that no human was saved before the time of Adam
• Jesus saved Adam and all those that came after him after he came into the Limbo and saved their souls

Circle 1 of the Limbo 

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